Pitt-Bolivia: A Service Learning Course offered by Pitt-Political Science
with Dr. Reinhard Heinisch 2002

Dr. Reinhard Heinisch, UPJ’s Director of International Studies, led a group of University of Pittsburgh students, including four from UPJ, to Bolivia for a three-week service learning project from May 22 through June 10, as part of a course on international development in Latin America. The trip was preceded by three weeks of traditional course work at the University’s Pittsburgh campus involving in-class lectures and readings covering such topics as problems of development and democracy in Andean society, elements of political and economic development, Latin American political history, development in Bolivia, and specific background on Andean peasant community life. The group then departed by plane for Bolivia via Miami and landing in Santa Cruz, where they were able to partner with a local government agency in Vinto, a small village outside Cochabamba, to assist in the construction of a perimter wall for the local orphanage. The construction involved mostly digging and establishing footers and erecting the brick wall itself. The group included political science  senior Dan Flynn and juniors Cheri Petrovich and Paul Rutledge.
 

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